Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

GIBLISTON HOUSELB155

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
01/03/1984
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Parish
Carnbee
NGR
NO 49806 4979
Coordinates
349806, 704979

Description

Built circa 1820. Classical villa; symmetrical; 2 storeys

over raised basement, 3 bays, with bowed single storey over

basement bay on west; various extensions to north and to west

by Sir Robert Lorimer, Architect 1916-31. Original House is

ashlar, rock-faced at basement, rusticated to ground floor,

and polished at 1st floor. South elevation: ground floor

openings in shallow recessed segmental-arched panels;

tripartite windows with blind balustrades, central advanced

bay with pilastered doorpiece, fanlight and sidelights at

head of flight of splayed steps with screens added 1919. 1st

floor with central tripartite (blind outer lights), single

windows in outer bays. Band course over ground floor and

basement, string course between ground floor windows, cornice

and blocking course, latter raised centrally. 2 piended

dormers added 1919; symmetrically placed stacks and slate

roof. Extended to north by Sir Robert Lorimer: 3 bays to

harled north elevation: door with tall fanlight in lugged

architrave at right, bipartites to ground floor of lower,

advanced central and left bays.

Square, single storey, flat-roofed, harled study added at

north west corner 1927, simple rectangular conservatory

beyond against south wall of outhouse. Study has 2 tall

18-pane sashes to south elevation, single sash to west: single

tall stack.

2 sundials in garden.

Statement of Special Interest

Probably built for Robert Gillespie Smith of Gibliston

1776-1855.

Purchased by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1916, and still (1981)

owned by his family.

Comparable elevation drawing in David Hamilton collection at

Glasgow University.

House contains some furniture designed by Lorimer.

References

Bibliography

Lorimer drawings in SNMR

About Listed Buildings

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We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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